VC Roundup: NFTs, crypto mortgages, 5G network and Web3 devs raise millions
From digital art to mortgages, blockchain technology is disrupting traditional industries — and attracting major investors to boot. The cryptocurrency market has failed to make significant headway in recent months, but that hasn’t stopped the industry’s builders from building. Nonfungible tokens (NFTs), crypto mortgages, blockchain-powered cellular networks and Web3 gaming have all piqued the interest of venture capitalists. These new and familiar investment themes headline the latest edition of VC Roundup, as venture funds continue to target blockchain’s most promising value plays. a16z....
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Venture capital from Pantera, Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, ConsenSys and Crypto.com is making its way to Web3 projects. Despite extreme volatility in the price of crypto assets, venture funds continue to make strategic investments in the industry. In recent weeks, the focus has shifted to infrastructure developers in Web3, play-to-earn and GameFi — nascent industries that still have significant upside ahead.Cointelegraph’s latest VC Roundup provides a rundown of funding stories that didn’t get front-page coverage but still generated significant interest from the venture capital....
With many asking what’s next for NFTs, charities and nonprofits are exploring and maximizing their power for charitable giving. Depending who you ask, NFTs are either a new and exciting way to invest, or a bearish, overhyped sector. Regardless, journalists, investors and collectors have paid significant attention to the growing NFT market in the past year. NFTs continue to be one of the most popular Web3 entry points, an opportunity for everyone from casual art fans to crypto billionaires to own a unique asset stored on the blockchain. As NFT visionaries have recently pointed out, NFTs....
Hartmann Capital has also launched a new metaverse fund and Solana NFT marketplace aggregator Hyperspace raised $4.5 million. Venture capital funding in the cryptocurrency market is showing no signs of slowing, as major investors continue to back promising startups in niche industries spanning the metaverse, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and GameFi. Cointelegraph’s new series, VC Roundup, provides a rundown of some of the biggest funding stories of the past few weeks. To stay informed on the latest developments from the world of blockchain business, be sure to register for our Crypto Biz....
Symbolic Capital has become the latest venture firm to focus heavily on Web3, gaming and NFTs. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur and Polygon founder Sandeep Nailwal has raised $50 million for a new startup fund dedicated to Web3 companies, underscoring venture capital’s growing interest in the blockchain-powered internet. Nailwal’s venture firm, Symbolic Capital, is backed by cryptocurrency protocols, exchanges, crypto-focused auditing firms and other venture capital investors, the company disclosed Thursday. Symbolic’s fund has already invested in three blockchain-focused gaming startups:....
Crypto gaming isn’t working. Developers need to focus more on fundamentals and less on cosmetics in order to fix it. What we have today in terms of Web3 gaming is not working. Play-to-earn has not worked and neither will play-to-earn or any X-to/and-earn. On top of that, traditional gamers view nonfungible tokens (NFTs) with suspicion. They dunk on expensive apes and are skeptical of large game publishers applying the lipstick of NFTs for further monetization.Nobody knows what a successful Web3 game will look like yet. To get there, we need more developers to experiment with more models.....